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Staging the Past

Judith Schlehe,Michiko Uike-Bormann,Carolyn Oesterle,Wolfgang Hochbruck
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Author : Judith Schlehe,Michiko Uike-Bormann,Carolyn Oesterle,Wolfgang Hochbruck
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839414811

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Staging the Past by Judith Schlehe,Michiko Uike-Bormann,Carolyn Oesterle,Wolfgang Hochbruck Pdf

Popular representations of history are taking on new forms and reaching wider audiences. The search for usable pasts is branching out into active appropriations of history such as historical theme parks, housing developments, and live-action role play. Drawing on themed environments across the continents, the articles in this volume focus on how these appropriations bypass, are different from, or even contradict traditional as well as scientific modes of disseminating historical knowledge. Bringing together theorists and practitioners, they provide the basis for an interdisciplinary as well as a transcultural theory of how pasts are staged in various social contexts.

Staging the Past

Maria Bucur,Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
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Author : Maria Bucur,Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Austria
ISBN : 1557531617

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This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.

Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher

Anthony P. Pennino
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Author : Anthony P. Pennino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319966861

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This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel – who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin’s concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: “the history we haven’t had”. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.

Staging Indigeneity

Katrina Phillips
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Author : Katrina Phillips
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469662329

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As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisive book reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls "salvage tourism"—a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing. Across time, Phillips argues, tourism, nostalgia, and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism, which blends tourism and history, contestations over citizenship, identity, belonging, and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape, entertainment, and economic development.

Staging Britain's Past

Kim Gilchrist
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Author : Kim Gilchrist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350163362

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Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as Elizabeth I's 1578 entry to Norwich. Gilchrist argues for the power of performed history to shape early modern conceptions of the past, ancestry, and national destiny, and demonstrates how the erosion of the Brutan histories marks a transformation in English self-understanding and identity. When published in 1608, Shakespeare's King Lear claimed to be a “True Chronicle History”. Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare's contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition's disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain's ancient rulers. Staging Britain's Past reveals how the loss of England's Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances from Gorboduc's powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline's elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.

Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play

Ralf Hertel
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Author : Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317050803

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Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play by Ralf Hertel Pdf

Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.

Staging Tourism

Jane Desmond
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Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226143767

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Staging Tourism by Jane Desmond Pdf

From Shamu the dancing whale at Sea World to Hawaiian lu'au shows, Staging Tourism analyzes issues of performance in a wide range of tourist venues. Jane C. Desmond argues that the public display of bodies—how they look, what they do, where they do it, who watches, and under what conditions—is profoundly important in structuring identity categories of race, gender, and cultural affiliation. These fantastic spectacles of corporeality form the basis of hugely profitable tourist industries, which in turn form crucial arenas of public culture where embodied notions of identity are sold, enacted, and debated. Gathering together written accounts, postcards, photographs, advertisements, films, and oral histories as well as her own interpretations of these displays, Desmond gives us a vibrant account of U.S. tourism in Waikiki from 1900 to the present. She then juxtaposes cultural tourism with "animal tourism" in the United States, which takes place at zoos, aquariums, and animal theme parks. In each case, Desmond argues, the relationship between the viewer and the viewed is ultimately based on concepts of physical difference harking back to the nineteenth century.

Staging Art and Chineseness

Jane Chin Davidson
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Author : Jane Chin Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526170604

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Staging Art and Chineseness by Jane Chin Davidson Pdf

Questioning what the term 'Chinese art' means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in the matrix of global expositions and political transnationalisms. Its case studies explore the changing political concept of Chineseness by examining performative, body-oriented video and eco-feminist works.

Staging History

Michael Burden,Wendy Heller,Jonathan Hicks,Ellen Lockhart
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Author : Michael Burden,Wendy Heller,Jonathan Hicks,Ellen Lockhart
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN : 1851244565

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Staging History by Michael Burden,Wendy Heller,Jonathan Hicks,Ellen Lockhart Pdf

"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. The medium of drama ensured that the telling of these histories--the French Revolution and the American War of Independence, for example, or the travels of Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus--were brought to life through words, music and spectacle. The scale of the productions was often ambitious: a water tank with model floating ships was deployed at Sadler's Wells for the staging of the Siege of Gibraltar, and another production on the same theme used live cannons which set fire to the vessels in each performance. Exploring contemporary theatrical documents and images including playbills, set designs, musical scores and prints, this illustrated collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary dramatic productions and casts light on their role in shaping a popular interpretation of historical events."--

Soundscapes of the Urban Past

Karin Bijsterveld
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Author : Karin Bijsterveld
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783839421796

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Soundscapes of the Urban Past by Karin Bijsterveld Pdf

We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such »staged sounds« express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such as film sound theory and museum audio guides. In doing so, this book puts contemporary controversies on urban sound in historical perspective, and contextualises iconic presentations of cities. It addresses academics, students, and museum workers alike. With contributions by Jasper Aalbers, Karin Bijsterveld, Carolyn Birdsall, Ross Brown, Andrew Crisell, Andreas Fickers, Annelies Jacobs, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Patricia Pisters, Holger Schulze, Mark M. Smith and Jonathan Sterne.

Staging Loss

Michael Pinchbeck,Andrew Westerside
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Author : Michael Pinchbeck,Andrew Westerside
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319979700

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Staging Loss by Michael Pinchbeck,Andrew Westerside Pdf

This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and remembrance at its heart, and as a timely topic for debate, this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as performance. It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance, where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie, and how it might be blurred, broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present, to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.

Staging Memory

Stefania Del Monte
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Author : Stefania Del Monte
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Amnesia
ISBN : 3631661258

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Staging Memory by Stefania Del Monte Pdf

Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi's deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya. The argument is sustained by case studies ranging among film, documentary, literature and art, shedding new light on how memory has been treated in the two postcolonial societies examined. The last part briefly analyses the identity transformation process in the new Libya.

Staging Place

Una Chaudhuri
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Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472065890

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The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

Staging the Renaissance

David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass
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Author : David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136758249

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Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan,Peter Stallybrass Pdf

The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Goldberg, Marjorie Garber, Lisa Jardine, and Jonathan Dollimore-- demonstrating the variety and vitality not only of contemporary criticism, but of Renaissance drama itself.

Staging Creolization

Emily Sahakian
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Author : Emily Sahakian
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813940090

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Staging Creolization by Emily Sahakian Pdf

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Sahakian here theorizes creolization as a performance-based process, dramatized by French Caribbean women’s plays and enacted through their international production and reception histories. The author contends that the syncretism of the plays is not a static, fixed creole aesthetics but rather a dynamic process of creolization in motion, informed by history and based in the African-derived principle that performance is a space of creativity and transformation that connects past, present, and future.